We are web nerds.

My name is Felix Chi. I run Guava. Here's why.

In 2005, in Havana, my friend Edel and I got the job of building an educational Flash CD-ROM called Mi Amiga la Tierra for Cuba's National Geography Institute. The project came with a rare privilege: access to the internet.

I stayed away from the sites that would get me in trouble. But I saved some articles for my mom. I studied 2advanced and the Flash studios that were pushing the web as an expressive medium. Google was blowing up. I found community, fellow ActionScript nerds sharing tips and tricks. I was hooked.

I moved to the US in late 2007. The first things I bought: a computer, internet access, and a hosting account. Not a car. Not a TV. I didn't just want to use the web — I wanted to be on it.

I registered felixchi.com, built a personal site, and got it into a couple of web galleries. Steve Jobs wrote his letter about Flash never coming to the iPhone, and I pivoted to web standards without looking back. HTML, CSS, JavaScript. jQuery and IE6. The dao of web design. Responsive web design. I was all in.

I've been building for the web ever since. Agencies, freelance, apps, marketing — all of it. Along the way I've built hundreds of websites and web applications. None of them famous. All of them useful. They've provided a living for thousands of people.

When you grow up somewhere the web is forbidden, you understand what most people take for granted. A URL is freedom. Your own domain is your own house. No landlord, no algorithm, no one deciding who gets to see your work.

Guava exists because I believe everyone deserves a home on the internet. Not a rented room on someone else's platform. A real home — your domain, your design, your voice.

That's what I build. That's what I've always built.